If you are well-versed in markdown, you don’t need a fully-blown editor with preview to write in markdown. For example, I am writing this article using vim. However, to post the article I need to convert it to html. Many web based markdown editors support that. Today I came across an easy to use python module which does the same. Continue reading Markdown to html on the terminal
Tag: command line tips
Color man pages
I came across this tip in the Arch wiki today. Turns out you can render man pages in gorgeous colors (tweak-able as well) using the less utility in the background. Settings for bash and fish follow. Continue reading Color man pages
Safely remove drives from terminal
Have you noticed that different file manager apps provide different options to remove drives? You probably have sees the options unmount, eject and safely remove drives. In this article we’ll explore these options briefly and then hack a way to safety detach removable USB disk drives from a Linux system. Continue reading Safely remove drives from terminal
wttr: weather from the terminal
Many of us have the habit of checking the weather every now and then. There are excellent weather indicators, Typhoon or cmdline wego and weather-util. Turns out there’s another way to get the same (but static) wego output in the terminal. And that too without installing any utility other than your pre-installed download tools. Continue reading wttr: weather from the terminal
Fix brightness issues on Manjaro
I am using Manjaro LXQt for a while now. My laptop is a Sony VAIO SVS13112ENB with Intel i915 graphics. The brightness keys wouldn’t work out of the box. To fix it I used the same scripts from Ubuntu and attached them to the brightness up/down keys. Those worked but I noticed two more issues with the procedure. Continue reading Fix brightness issues on Manjaro
maybe… you want a trial run
maybe is a cmdline python utility to make sure a destructive command doesn’t do anything to your filesystem that will make you repent later. maybe intercepts the program using the ptrace library and makes the program believe that everything is going smooth. Continue reading maybe… you want a trial run
Grep binary files on Linux
We explored techniques to search a binary file using grep in an earlier article. However, we could only search ASCII strings using grep. In this article we will explore some powerful utilities which can perform ascii as well as hexadecimal string search on binary files. Continue reading Grep binary files on Linux
buku & xsel: add selected or copied URL as bookmark
buku is a powerful cmdline Python3 SQLite3 bookmark management utility. buku v1.8 adds the capability of handling piped input. Besides the obvious, this adds the possibility of adding bookmarks from anywhere in your system to the buku database. On Linux, copied text or mouse selected text can be added directly with a shortcut. The other tool you need is xsel. Let’s try it out! Continue reading buku & xsel: add selected or copied URL as bookmark
TLDR: man, abbreviated.
Do you find the man pages boring to read? Do you <Shift-g> to the end hunting for some real usage examples? Probably many Linux users do the same. Sometimes it makes sense, when you don’t need to re-understand the wheel. That’s why you should try the TLDR pages. Continue reading TLDR: man, abbreviated.
slurm: network stats on the console
slurm is a Linux network utility to monitor your network traffic in real time. It is similar to utilities like NetHogs or iftop and provides device statistics. Continue reading slurm: network stats on the console